Summary

She tilts her head curiously at the sight of me, as though some exotic bird has alighted upon her doorstep. “The last time I saw your like in the Seam,” she remarks by way of greeting, “Jack Everdeen got a sweetheart, and a fiancée by week’s end.

“No,” she amends after a moment, frowning slightly. “I take that back. Your mama was the last town girl I saw here, all pink skirts and high-buttoned shoes, carrying a satchel full of pretty dresses and kerchiefs and soaps and a canary in a cage for Jack’s new bride, who ran away from home with no more than the clothes on her back.”

She regards me thoughtfully. “I don’t see a canary or a packed case, Miss Undersee,” she says. “Have you come for a sweetheart?”

The day after New Year's, Madge Undersee goes to the Hawthornes' to talk business. A parallel fic to When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun, with references to previous chapters.

Title taken from Ch 3 of When the Moon:I silently curse Gale as colorfully as I know how. What was he doing at the mayor’s house anyway? It's a good six months to strawberry time, and he'd have nothing else to trade.

Summary

Katniss Everdeen was the apple of her father’s eye, he had never loved something or someone as much as he loved her. Their relationship was something to behold, nothing could break their bond. Not an absentee mother, coming back in search for a relationship. Not a jealous half-sister. And especially not a strong, broad boy from New York, who had eyes that were as blue as the ocean itself.

Summary

Katniss didn't think anyone would show up at her mother's funeral. She couldn't wait to get it over with, empty her apartment and go home with Peeta. Instead, one visitor gave them the shock of their lives and changed everything.

This was requested as a Write Me an Everlark Drabble and turned into a long story.

Summary

They met in the place where their hopes intersected: the narrow alley between the bakery and the apothecary... Like a figure and its reflection, they each bore a gift in gloved hands, tied with a single red ribbon, and like that figure and its reflection, their steps faltered simultaneously at a sight and a sound from within the apothecary’s shopfront.

A New Year's encounter between two unrequited lovers raises unexpected possibilities. A canon divergent fic exploring "what might have been" between Jack and Raisa (young Mr. Everdeen and the would-be Mrs. Mellark) in canon Panem.

Title inspired by Owl City's "If My Heart Was a House":Circle me and the needle moves gracefullyBack and forthIf my heart was a compass you'd be north

Summary

[We] feasted on love, every mode of it—solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. - C.S. Lewis

Katniss and Peeta indulge in an afternoon interlude - alternately sensual and playful but always tender - before their college freshman daughter comes home for the weekend. Modern AU oneshot, submitted to Love in Panem for their 2017 Valentine's Day Challenge: "Love Is..."

Summary

It's something out of an old tale: a golden young man in a white bearskin, striking strange bargains with desperate souls on the cruelest night of winter.

Peeta Mellark, winner of the 74th Hunger Games, returns from his Victory Tour to make the starving Everdeens an offer they can't refuse. Canon divergent, based on the fairy tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

Summary

A continuation and final installment of Having Them Both and Always. The attempt to subdue Snow has failed, and the rebels have retreated to Thirteen, but Peeta alone is captured in the City Circle. In order to avoid further torture and to protect those left in Thirteen, he accepts a bargain from Snow: replace Finnick Odair and sell his body to the Capitol. Explores Peeta's journey back to sanity as he struggles to rediscover his feelings for Katniss. The usual warnings apply: violence, torture, rape, substance abuse, self injury, language, and sex.

Summary

Much later she would see how like a spell that moment had been: a grief-stricken king and a ripe-breasted baker’s widow, the glory of her bright hair spilling about her bare torso. Later still there would be blame laid, and enchantments identified and condemned. But in that humble kitchen, during the coldest May anyone could remember, the only enchantments present were of the natural sort which spring up, unbidden, in the human mind and heart.

A hungry infant brings together a baker's widow and a grieving king. A prologue of sorts to an Everlark Snow White, following the stepmother's story and her relationship with her stepdaughter; this begins as Jack/Raisa (Mr. Everdeen/Mrs. Mellark) but will eventually end up with Peeta/Katniss.

Summary

None came in answer to my knock, and as the rain beat against my back in barbed pellets of ice I forsook propriety and reached hopefully for the latch. To my surprise, it lifted without effort. The door gave at once beneath my touch, almost as though I were expected, and opened inward to reveal a very heaven of domesticity; all broad oak timbers and rounded stone, warm and bright as gold, where the very air tasted of honey and woodsmoke and freshly baked bread.

I crossed the threshold without hesitation and drew the door fast behind me.

Primrose Everdeen seeks shelter from a storm and stumbles upon mystery, magic, and the very love of her life. A multi-Everlark take on "The Three Bears" with flickers of "Snow White and Rose Red" and "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

Summary

The dark boy, she learned quickly, loved when she touched the earth. She knew the earth was his father, but when she trailed her fingers through fresh soil, it was the boy whose sigh she heard, as though she ran her fingers through his black hair. She wondered if she would ever have the courage or the opportunity to attempt such in truth.

The boy was persistent but not bold in his desire for her attention, and when he longed for it most, he would come as near the opening of his hiding place as he dared and sing the stone-song to her. The words fell upon her like fragrant petals, albeit in a strange tongue, and she would press her back to a tree and listen as every bird in the vicinity fell silent to hear him too.

The love story of Katniss's parents as a gentler retelling of Hades and Persephone, where tenderness and longing take the place of abduction and deceit. (This may ultimately continue on to Peeta and Katniss, as Alyssum is really more like Demeter, putting Katniss in line to be a very interesting Persephone indeed.)

Summary

Oneshot inspired by the Everlark Drabble Challenge prompt "Everlark are late to their own wedding reception," issued by PeetasAndHerondales. A lighthearted modern AU oneshot with nods to THG canon and the When the Mooniverse.

Summary

New Year's night from Prim's perspective, with its own share of kissing boughs, ribbons, and secrets. A parallel oneshot to When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun, Chapter 11, with references to previous chapters.

Summary

Peeta's father takes Peeta to school and remembers his past with Katniss's mother.

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This is my first Hunger Games fan fiction. I had intended to centralize this work on Peeta's first impressions of Katniss and the beginning of him falling in love with her but it morphed into a story about Peeta's father instead. I hope you enjoy it, and please leave comments if you have anything to compliment or critique!